Display iMovie output on external display?

I would like to be able to occasionally display the iMovie I am editing on a real TV screen for others to observe and comment on - sort of like what I recall Professional Video Editors use. I've used a jury-rig setup several times (but I am not very happy with the output) where I use the S-video to composite adapter, a y-adapter for the audio (though this time no audio was coming out so we listened through the PowerBook's speakers), the longst RCA cables I had and mirrored the TV and LCD. Thank the gods for Bluetooth mice...
Anyway, what I would prefer to be able to do is use our Canopus ADC300 to send the video signal out the same way is came in - through a long FireWire cable so I can vegitate in my recliner while I do the iMovie edits the viewers are asking for. I do not want to export the iMovie, I just want to have what I guess would be called a "live preview".
I encountered a how-to on this Apple Developer goodie:
SimpleVideoOut
(http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2004/12/22/video_out. html?page=1)
but it seems to only do its streaming magic with an existing QuickTime file.

Hi Notary,
goto iM prefs..
choose playback options
choose playback on dv-camera (or whatever it is in english...)
now, the fullscreen playback of iM goes thru the fw connection to your camera/hopefully converter... connect your monitor, beamer whatever at the analogue-outputs of camera/converter...
have a look in the manual/tutorial of iMovie......

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